Record Number: 5370
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have trembled with Jane Eyre as the first Mrs Rochester rent her bridal veil in maddened jealousy. I have been shipwrecked with Masterman Ready and on Pitcairn Island with Fletcher Christian. I have been a medieval page in Sir Nigel and Lorna Doone madly in love with 'girt Jan Ridd'".
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:chauffeur's daughter
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Lorna Doone
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5370
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven, London
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:380
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, London, 2001), p. 380, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5370, accessed: 13 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See Margaret Wharton, 'Recollections of a GI War Bride: A Wiltshire Childhood' (Gloucester, 1984) pp. 81-2